DIVISION 4. INSTRUCTION AND SERVICES [46000 - 64100]

PART 27. PUPILS [48000 - 49704]

CHAPTER 2. Compulsory Education Law [48200 - 48361]

( Chapter 2 enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010. )

ARTICLE 1. Persons Included [48200 - 48208]

( Article 1 enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010. )

48206.3.

(a) Except for those pupils receiving individual instruction provided pursuant to Section 48206.5, a pupil with a temporary disability which makes attendance in the regular day classes or alternative education program in which the pupil is enrolled impossible or inadvisable shall receive individual instruction provided by the district in which the pupil is deemed to reside.

(b) For purposes of this section and Sections 48206.5, 48207, and 48208, the following terms have the following meanings:

(1) “Individual instruction” means instruction provided to an individual pupil in the pupil’s home, in a hospital or other residential health facility, excluding state hospitals, or under other circumstances prescribed by regulations adopted for that purpose by the State Board of Education.

(2) “Temporary disability” means a physical, mental, or emotional disability incurred while a pupil is enrolled in regular day classes or an alternative education program, and after which the pupil can reasonably be expected to return to regular day classes or the alternative education program without special intervention. A temporary disability shall not include a disability for which a pupil is identified as an individual with exceptional needs pursuant to Section 56026.

(c) (1) For purposes of computing average daily attendance pursuant to Section 42238.5, each clock hour of teaching time devoted to individual instruction shall count as one day of attendance.

(2) No pupil shall be credited with more than five days of attendance per calendar week, or more than the total number of calendar days that regular classes are maintained by the district in any fiscal year.

(d) Notice of the availability of individualized instruction shall be given pursuant to Section 48980.